insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 15 - May 2016 | Page 33
ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
JAM On The Marsh // Kent // 7-17 July
Whitstable
Oyster
Festival
// Kent
// 21-31 July
JAM is a creative, dynamic,
forward-thinking music
organisation, regularly
collaborating with some of the
most important composers,
performers and other likeminded organisations. Since
2000 they have
commissioned, enabled and
performed over eighty new
pieces of music. In 2016, JAM
will be involved with 27 events around the UK, with 24 being part of JAM
on the Marsh in July.
JAM on the Marsh is an annual, multi-arts festival built around Kent’s
magnificent Romney Marsh and its famous medieval churches. The Marsh
churches are true beacons of culture and history and are the heart of the
festival, which features music, arts and photography and poetry and theatre.
The Whitstable
Oyster Festival is the
premier oyster
festival in the UK,
offering not only the
oysters themselves
but also plenty of entertainment. The entire festival opens with the traditional
blessing of the water, and continues for 10 days of oyster related events,
demonstrations, tastings and the music hub called The Shuck. For those
who want to attend from further afield, a campsite will be set up specifically
for Oyster Festival attendees.
www.whistableoysterfestival.co.uk
www.jamconcert.org
Create Festival
// Kent // 23 July
Lewes Live
// Sussex // 8-9 July
11.30am – 9pm
Create Music Festival, one of
the South East’s biggest free
music festivals, is back for its
21st birthday in Ashford’s
Victoria Park. With an
impressive line-up of local,
regional and national headline
acts across four stages,
visitors will enjoy a packed
programme of music
spanning from rock, pop,
dance and singer-songwriters.
Last year saw
outstanding headline performances from Adam Ant, Mark Morriss (Bluetones)
and Gaz Coombes (Su